What is a cob?

[Foxes157]

As we're doing regional words.

I love threads like these - i'd forgotten a cob was also a horse!

I only knew it as a bad mood/sulk.

A cob nut
I know it means a roll too, but never use it.

Type of horse

To me a cob is an ear of sweetcorn, as in corn on the cob.
To my Midlands hailing DH it's a bread roll. The first time he told me he'd got me some cobs, I was most disappointed to find bread rolls.

A crusty bread roll, best eaten with fuckloads of butter.

My mum says "I'm sweating cobs" when she's hot. Can't see any links with bread rolls, horses or nuts there. Do we have any language experts to explain where the phrase comes from. She's from Lancashire so an expert in Lanky Twang would be best!

Yes I’ve heard ‘sweating cobs’ too.

I’m in Yorkshire but I only know it’s another name for a bread roll because I’ve read it on MN before.
I’ve never heard it used by anyone here.

A type of nut.
A horse

A crusty round roll.
As in 'a crusty cob'.

Cob means round, sturdy round/rotund rather than just circular so sweating cobs would mean sweating big, round beads of sweat.

Ah that makes sense HoHo. Thanks for the explanation.

A bread roll from t’north or a mood.

A bread roll or a bad mood (Midlands)

A bad mood. Id say someone has a "cob on"

In Nottm it can be a bread roll, but also is someone "has a cob on " they are in a bad mood. A cob is a type of horse not just in one region but everywhere. Also a round stone foe cobbled paving, ans also a cob nut

A type of horse (e.g. Welsh cob), a round bread roll, a sulk (cob on), a nut (cob nut).